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"Your young friend," Rose commented, "is as affectionate as she's pretty: sending her love to people she has never seen!"
"She only meant the little girl. I think it's rather nice of her," said Mrs. Beever. "My interest in these anxieties is always confined to the mamma. I thought we were going so straight."
"I dare say we are," Miss Armiger replied. "But Nurse told me an hour ago that I'm not to see her at all this morning. It will be the first morning for several days."
Mrs. Beever was silent a little. "You've enjoyed a privilege altogether denied to me."
"Ah, you must remember," said Rose, "that I'm Julia's oldest friend. That's always the way she treats me."
Mrs. Beever assented. "Familiarly, of course. Well, you're not mine; but that's the way I treat
